+ List of Billy Wilder awards Photo of Gloria Swanson with Billy Wilder in 1950. Award Wins NominationsAcademy AwardBritish Academy Film AwardGolden Globe AwardDirectors Guild AwardProducers Guild AwardWriters Guild Award
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder.
Wilder was an American film writer, director, producer, with a Hollywood career that spanned over five decades, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers for Classical Hollywood cinema. His most recognized films include: the crime noir Double Indemnity (1944), the film noir The Lost Weekend (1945), the black comedy Sunset Boulevard (1950), the newspaper drama Ace in the Hole (1951), the war film Stalag 17 (1953), the romance Sabrina (1954), the comedy The Seven Year Itch (1955), the epic The Spirit of St. Louis, the romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon, and the courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution (all 1957), as well as gender bending comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), and the romance drama The Apartment (1960).
Over his distinguished and varied career as a director he has received 21 Academy Award nominations winning six awards for The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment. He also earned two British Academy Film Award nominations and a win for The Apartment as well as seven Golden Globe Award nominations winning twice for The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He has also received 5 Writers Guild of America Award wins as well as the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or for The Lost Weekend in 1945 and the Venice Film Festival award for Best Director for Ace in the Hole.
He has also received various honorary awards, and tributes including the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1995. He has also received the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award and two Laurel Awards for Screenwriting Achievements from the Writers Guild of America. He has also been honored with a Gala Tribute at Film at Lincoln Center (1982), the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award (1986), Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear (1993), the Kennedy Center Honors (1990), and a National Endowment for the Arts (1993).
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1940Best ScreenplayNinotchka1942Best StoryBall of FireBest ScreenplayHold Back the Dawn1945Best DirectorDouble IndemnityBest Screenplay1946Best DirectorThe Lost WeekendBest Screenplay1949A Foreign Affair1951Best DirectorSunset BoulevardBest Original Screenplay1952Ace in the Hole1954Best DirectorStalag 171955SabrinaBest Screenplay1958Best DirectorWitness for the Prosecution1960Some Like It HotBest Screenplay1961Best PictureThe ApartmentBest DirectorBest Original Screenplay1967The Fortune Cookie1988Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1960Best FilmSome Like It Hot1961The Apartment1995BAFTA Fellowship
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1946Best DirectorThe Lost Weekend1951Sunset BoulevardBest Screenplay1958Best DirectorWitness for the Prosecution1961The Apartment1973Avanti!Best Screenplay
Guild awards Directors Guild of America Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1950Outstanding Directing – Feature FilmSunset Boulevard 1953Stalag 171954Sabrina1956The Seven Year Itch1957Love in the AfternoonWitness for the Prosecution1959Some Like It Hot1960The Apartment1984 D.W. Griffith Award 1990Preston Sturges Award
Producers Guild of America Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1997David O. Selznick Achievement Award
Writers Guild of America Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1951Best Written DramaSunset Boulevard 1955Best Written ComedySabrina1957Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement1958Best Written ComedyLove in the Afternoon1960Some Like It Hot1961The Apartment1980Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Festival awards Cannes Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1946Palme d'OrThe Lost Weekend
Venice Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1951 International Award for Best Director Ace in the Hole
Critics awards New York Film Critics Circle Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1944 Best Director Double Indemnity 1946 The Lost Weekend 1950 Sunset Boulevard 1960The Apartment Best Screenplay Best Film 1961 Best Director One, Two, Three
Honorary awards Year Award Category Result Ref.1982Film at Lincoln CenterGala tribute1986American Film InstituteLife Achievement Award1993Berlin International Film FestivalHonorary Golden Bear1990John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsKennedy Center Honors1993National Endowment for the ArtsNational Medal of Arts
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